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PublishedOctober 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Fantastic Pretraining Optimizers and Where to Find Them
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arXiv:2509.02046v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AdamW has long been the dominant optimizer in language model pretraining, despite numerous claims that alternative optimizers offer 1.4 to 2x speedup. We posit that two methodological shortcomings have obscured fair comparisons and hindered practic
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